Posted on 01/15/2016 7:07:02 PM PST by Red Steel
In the stakes to see who can make the most political hay out of the new action movie "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi," it didn't take long for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to best Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, the man who's chasing him for the GOP nomination.
After Cruz plugged the movie's Friday release in Thursday night's GOP debate, calling it a story of brave Americans "and the politicians that abandoned them," The Des Moines Register reports that Trump has rented space at a movie theater in that city and will screen the flick for free, just weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses.
"Mr. Trump would like all Americans to know the truth about what happened at Benghazi," the GOP presidential candidate's Iowa co-chair, Tana Goertz, said Thursday night, according to the Register. "The theater is paid for. The tickets are paid for. You just have to RSVP."
The move seems designed in part to help hold off Cruz, who's been locked in a tight battle with the real estate mogul in the critical early primary state. Escalating the competition, Cruz and Trump junked their monthslong goodwill gambit and turned Thursday's debate into a two-man mosh pit, trading blows on Trump's stealth campaign to question the Canadian-born Cruz's citizenship and Cruz's suggestion that Trump represents uber-liberal "New York values."
The film by Michael Bay – the director behind the highly successful "Transformers" action franchise – tells the story of a small unit of American contract commandos battling heavily armed militants who launched assaults on a U.S. diplomatic compound and a nearby CIA facility in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, died in the attacks, which began on Sept. 11, 2012, and quickly became shorthand for the Obama administration's foreign policy and national security failures.
The movie, based on a nonfiction book by former Boston Globe investigative reporter Mitchell Zuckoff, purportedly is apolitical: Bay himself insists the story avoids politics and focuses primarily on the military contractors and their against-all-odds fight for survival. But conservatives have eagerly awaited its big-screen release.
Though early reviews suggest the film studiously avoids mentioning Hillary Clinton, the Democrats' presidential front-runner who was President Barack Obama's secretary of state at the time, "13 Hours" is expected to be a blockbuster hit that will almost certainly reinsert the tragedy – and her role in it - into the national political conversation.
I’m laughing. We’re you joking? All the other candidates spend their contributors money and your tax dollars (all to get power. ... And money. ) Have you ever noticed how our congress critters all seem to become very wealthy after they take office. Just for once I want a candidate that loves America and unselfishly does things for the joy of giving. There is story after story of Trumps generosity
Here is one from 1991 when Trump was called before congress
What a great way to buy votes. Sounds like something Donald would do. He is getting desperate
That's exactly why we need Trump at the helm of our FOREIGN POLICY, Biffo!
(....man, you really walked right into this one!).
Leni
I would not call it desperate to promote the film “13 Hours.” This is an excellent film that I would encourage everybody to see.
20 years ago?? Ha ha ha
And there have not been others that were liberal-minded that have made 180’s in their way of thinking?
Levin is Lame. Trump’s mindset today scare the pure-d-shit out of liberal heads.
Go soak yours,
No I did not walk into anything. Trump is buying votes, just like any good democrat does.
Leni
I wonder if they got any “walking around” money too?
Maybe, did not make it so we will have to rely on reports.
Excellent.
Each of the graphics I have made are available for anyone who wants to, to use.
I like that.
Trump has some very creative advertising people who can get the message across very well. For example does anyone remember when Bush recently offered to debate Trump, “any place, any time”? Trump’s response was a photo of Bush picking his nose. Now that was quick, creative and effective. Renting a theater is just another low cost, rather effective way of planting the seeds to destroy odumbo and Hitlary, look at the publicity it has received.
Buying votes? Now THAT’S “progressive!”
When it is with Goooberment $$$ money it is.
Too bad Trump’s money can’t undo his 2008 vote for Obama!
You need to keep up. That's a Beck charge that is false. Trump supported McCain in 2008.
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